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kudu

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ku·du also koo·doo  (kd)
n. pl. kudu or ku·dus also koodoo or koo·doos
Either of two large African antelopes (Tragelaphus strepsiceros or T. imberbis) having a brownish coat with narrow, white vertical stripes and, in the male, long, spirally curved horns.
[Afrikaans koedoe, from Xhosa i-quda, i-qudu, perhaps from Nama kudu.]
kudu or koodoo
Noun
a spiral-horned African antelope [Afrikaans, from Khoi (language of southern Africa)]
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Noun1.kudukudu - either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush
koodoo, koudou
antelope - graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks
genus Strepsiceros, genus Tragelaphus, Strepsiceros, Tragelaphus - African antelopes: kudus; bongos; nyalas; bushbucks
greater kudu, Tragelaphus strepsiceros - a variety of kudu
lesser kudu, Tragelaphus imberbis - a smaller variety of kudu


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Mingled with the sounds he knew, there were strange sounds--weird sounds which he never heard until after Kudu had sought his lair below the far edge of the big water-sounds which belonged to Goro, the moon--and to the mysterious period of Goro's supremacy.
Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
When the sun shone again upon the second day and a wide, open plain let the full heat of Kudu flood the chilled, brown body, Tarzan's spirits rose; but it was still a sullen, surly brute that moved steadily onward into the south where he hoped again to pick up the trail of the Germans.
Tarzan the Untamed by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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